Quirrel is designed to allow anyone to perform complex analysis of large, multi-structured data sets without the need to write code.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, John A. De Goes, CEO & CTO of Precog, will walk Cloud Expo delegates through the basics of Quirrel, the «R for Big Data» language. All participants will be provided with an online learning environment where they can follow along and learn the core syntax and features of the Quirrel analysis language. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to load, filter, correlate, group, and aggregate data using Quirrel.

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By Paul Moxon, Senior Director, Product & Solutions Marketing

I’m often asked, “What’s the biggest thing standing in the way of enterprise IT getting on board with cloud adoption?”

My response is always the same: “The biggest thing standing in the way of enterprise IT cloud adoption is IT’s unwillingness to accept that business units (BUs) are already adopting the cloud.”

By 2012, BUs are eager to flout IT authority and circumvent IT constraints in order to solve problems now rather than see their requests languish in IT’s backlog of special projects, hostage to unreasonable wait times.

Those days are over.

IT now has two options: Get on board or get left behind.

I’m seeing this exact scenario in our customer organisations as well. Customer BUs approach IT seeking solutions, without ever involving IT in the preliminary decision making process. They prefer instead to drag IT …

Yottabyte, a two-year-old Michigan start-up with awfully big shoes to fill given its very big name, claims to have what every boy wants these days, a cloud operating system.
It says the widgetry lets it create cloud-based data centers that incorporate storage, compute and network using a public, private or hybrid cloud model, a claim that sounds vaguely familiar.
It fancies that unlike competitive point solutions, it may be the first provider to really embrace the scope of what it calls the data center challenge. It figures customers want compute, network and storage in a single solution; they want to virtualize machines and applications; and they want to deploy hybrid clouds.
It says that’s a tall order, historically requiring multi-vendor solutions and typically resulting in tough compromises in performance or scalability.

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By Roy Illsley, Principal Analyst, IT Software

At the recent Citrix Synergy conference in Barcelona, more than 4,000 delegates heard Citrix’s latest mobile and cloud-enabled-world message. The announcements in Mark Templeton’s keynote this year were based on evidence of what Citrix has, or will in the near term, deliver, and were less visionary in nature than previous announcements.

The four key announcements were: project Avalon, which will act as the cloud orchestration layer; storage zones, which will allow users to select where data is stored; MBX technology applied to Cloud Gateway, which will wrap controls and security around applications; and advances in HDX technology to support greater use of video. While project Avalon is a glimpse into the future direction of Citrix, the other three technologies are all recently released and available.

Project Avalon considers a future where Windows remains the dominant enterprise technology

The premise behind …

We face the challenge of monitoring and managing performance in clouds every other day. Not only is application performance management different in a cloud, but all clouds are not equal either.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Michael Kopp, technology strategist at Compuware, will show how to do APM in several different Clouds (Azure, EC2, VMware private Clouds) and how it differs from more traditional environments. He will cover performance monitoring, troubleshooting and tuning. Finally he will explain why the very goals for optimizing performance are no longer the same when talking about public clouds.

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Clouds have what you need: reliable and highly resilient compute, networks and storage. But achieving true scale and efficiency requires designing and building your cloud from the ground up.
In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Kedar Poduri, Director of Product Management, Cloud Platform Group, at Citrix Systems, and Anantha Kasetty, Senior Sales Engineer, Cloud Platform Group, at Citrix Systems, will discuss the core capabilities and newest innovations in the Citrix CloudPlatform and the best practices for deployment of your cloud.

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Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack, has been the platform of choice for more than 100 public and private production clouds.
In his Lunchtime Focus Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, VP Cloud Market Development at Citrix, will provide an insider view as one of the co-founders of Cloud.com and will talk about his deployment experiences and provide tips for designing an open, scalable and highly efficient cloud that can support both traditional and purpose-built cloud workloads from a single solution.

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The Software-Defined Datacenter is a unified datacenter platform that will help you transform the way you deliver IT with unprecedented automation, flexibility, and efficiency. VMware’s unique software-defined approach moves beyond traditional IT complexity and rigidity by liberating datacenter services from the constraints of specialized hardware. Compute, storage, networking, security, and availability services are pooled, aggregated, and delivered as software, and managed by intelligent, policy-driven software. The result is a datacenter optimized for the cloud era, providing unmatched business agility, the highest SLAs for all applications, dramatically simpler operations, and lower costs.

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